This is my third plane from
the deceased members estate and my second hanger queen and for reasons
I am not sure, I did spend lot of effort in fettling and finishing it
and I am proud of it but it hasn't had many outings 'yet', these pictures
are of the full size I based my model on and when I take it down the field
and take some pictures, they will complement these.

What I got for my money was
a finished fuz and wings. The fuz looked like it had a growth around the
tailplane and fin root which was or could have been some sort of filler
under the doped tissue. The wings where finished in doped tissue also
and painted but it was in an awful state, and I had just parted with my
hard earned for this, admittedly not much.

The fungus was ground out using
a dremel and sand paper, refilled and smoothed, The whole fuz was rubbed
down with wet and dry and stopped with cellulose stopper to fill in the
micro blemishes, got to remember, I had just resprayed the Jag and had
learned lots and lots of stuff left..

The wings turned out to be
a bit harder, I cut the doped tissue from the wing bays and sanded down
the rest the best I could, I damaged more than one rib capping (and rib)
which needed replacement, some bits just fell out. Not being one to be
beaten I was one move short of putting them in the bin and starting again,
then I found Guerilla Glue with its very good adhesive qualities and fills
gaps nicely.

The wings where sprayed with
a sealer as I didn't know what was on them and then prepped for GlossTex
covering with Solar Trim to finish. The rest was sealed and then sprayed
with SolarLac 'White' to match the wings and Red to do the flash bits,
in some instances I wasn't impressed with my masking technique but I think
it was using cheap masking tape, so some of the trim on the fuz is Red
Solar Trim, decals where supplied via tim@modelmarkings.com and vola'

Its a Denis Tapsfield designed
on an Radio Modeller plan RM143, 1/4 scale, 57" wingspan and designed
for .61 2 stroke motors. Mine has a ASP 1.20 up front, it was weighing
in about the same as the Zlin but considerably smaller so I thought it
would need a bit more umph to get out of trouble. I spent hours trying
to figure out how to get it to fit, rather than cutting and shutting bulkheads
etc I decided to fit the engine up front on the original F1 and extend
the cowl to cover it.

It transpired that the cowl
needed an extra 20mm or so and inverting the engine meant most of it would
be hidden. Using the original glassfibre cowl I made an outside mould
so I could form the extra 20mm based on original cowl profile with fibre
glass, one small area proved problematic when demolding the mold because
I just used wax as release agent. The results while not perfect are acceptable,
I have thought of making another full mold to make another but decided
I couldn't be bothered.

I am not sure why or how but
I ended up test flying the Lil Toot and it flew straight and true not
needing more than a coupole of click straight off the building board so
to speak and it looked fantastic in the air. I haven't investigated the
flight envolope much but intend to this year.

The other slighly interesting
thing with this plane is the engine is mounted inverted and with the tank
in the original position the carb was something in the region of 40mm
below the bottom of the tank. The solution I hit upon was to turn the
back plate round screw the carb back on and fill the gap with a bit of
aluminium tube cut and bent to size to fit in between, I have to thank
the Wizard of Oz for his advice on this one (Brian Winch) and the engine
runs great with no problems. That looks to be a webpage in itself. Thinks!